CHAPTER XXVII. 



SANITARY MIIvK PRODUCTION. 



Sanitary Milk Defined. Sanitary milk is milk from 

 healthy cows, produced and handled under conditions in 

 which contamination from filth, bad odors, and bacteria, 

 is reduced to a minimum. 



Importance of Sanitary Milk. The production of 

 clean, pure milk is one of the most important subjects 

 which confronts buttermakers at the present time. Fur- 

 ther improvements in the quality of butter must largely 

 be sought in the use of cleaner milk. 



No matter how skillful a buttermaker may be, he can 

 not produce the highest quality of butter from milk of 

 inferior quality. Skill may do much to improve quality 

 but it can never make perfection out of imperfection. It 

 should, therefore, be as much a duty of the butter maker 

 to keep his patrons properly instructed in the care and 

 handling of milk as it is to keep himself posted on the 

 latest and most approved methods of making butter. 



The Necessary Conditions for the production of sani- 

 tary milk are as follows: (i) Healthy cows; (2) sani- 

 tary barn; (3) clean barn yard; (4) clean cows; (5) 

 clean milkers; (6) clean milk vessels; (7) clean, whole- 

 some feed; (8) pure water; (9) clean strainers; (10) 

 dust-free stable air; (11) clean bedding; (12) milking 

 with dry hands; (13) thorough cooling of milk after 

 milking; (14) sanitary milk room. 



Healthy Cows. The health of the cow is of prime im- 

 portance in the production of sanitary milk. All milk 



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